On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Srini RamaKrishnan <che...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> India graduates a surprisingly high number of engineers and doctors >> every year from its Universities, yet, barring a handful, most of them >> are ill qualified to be honored with their degrees. This is a charade >> that modern Indian society willingly indulges in. > > The degrees are conferred after they do successfully navigate the > examination system. I don't think it is a fair trade to say that the > individuals are ill qualified when the baseline against which they > measure themselves and, are themselves measured, is flawed.
By the same token, obtaining a driving license in India isn't about learning to drive a vehicle, as much as it is about learning to drive your paperwork through government bureaucracy. The system doesn't make it easy because then there would be no rate limiting. Cheeni
